bassbloke

This gig WILL be a disaster, but it could be a good learning experience for you in a 'let's see just how much of a mess this person can make of organising'. I quite enjoy really, really badly organised gigs. All the bands usually club together to salvage what they can from the event and you never know who might be in attendance and be impressed by your professional attitude. Refuse, politely, to provide a kit. What if the gig does go pear shaped and you can't get a lift back. Recommend she hires a basic kit (probably something around the £50 mark). Her friend can go and collect it. She can recoup it from the costs of putting on the gig.

Does the cab sound any different? I don't know if the Neo cabs have a tweeter protection circuit but the burning sound you describe could be the tweeter diaphram. I owned a peavey 210 cab years ago and used to seriously overdo it on the top end and fried 2 or 3 diaphrams before I learned to rein in the top end. It's a simple enough fix, provided you can get your hands on the part. That's a cab with 600watts power handling. Unless there is some inherent fault with your amp or cab that caused the failure, you need to seriously think about turning down!!!

They have a Peavey Tour 450 at our rehearsal place and it sounds surprisingly good. They're not expensive either. You might also have a bit of fun with the built in octaver. However, I read a lot of owner reviews complaining about the reliability. With that in mind, I'd probably consider the hartke.

Any reason why you want to go the combo route? If you are getting bigger gigs, a head/cab set up would be far more flexible as you'll find yourself being encouraged to share backline on numerous occasions. Of the 6 or so gigs I've played over the last few months I've used my cab once and on the occasion I did use mine, it wasn't necessary as there was a pretty decent house rig. Others may disagree, but 2 x 10 combos aren't that common. A quick scout of this forum shows many complete rigs available well within your price bracket, but 2 x10 combos are a lot rarer, mainly because it's a speaker configuration that's not that popular in combo form. That still wouldn't put me off the SWR Super Redhead as it's a cracking piece of kit. I used to own a Bass 350 head and they sound wonderful. There's no way you could be disappointed with the sound - but you'd probably want to try first.

[url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SWR-Super-Redhead-Bass-Amp_W0QQitemZ330400288150QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_MusicalInstr_Amplifiers_RL?hash=item4ced644d96#ht_1501wt_1165"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SWR-Super-Redhead-Ba...#ht_1501wt_1165[/url] Possibly the rolls royce of 2x10 combos It's a classic. The parametric EQ is very powerful. It's doesn;t have a tiltback, but cones wiuth a handy front cover that can be used to tilt the ampo back. HAndy 1U rack psace for tuner, compressor.

I'm assuming you're in a rock/metal band. Focus on the drummer and less on the riffs. Whilst you have to complement the guitars, your job is to provide the foundation. You may end up with less interesting parts, but that's the sacrifice of being a bass player. You'll also help your drummer develop.

Lots of things you can try Either cheat and play it an octave down so you're playing it off the open E, play it 12th fret on the E so it's less of a stretch. Which fingers do you use to fret? Pinky or 2nd or 3rd finger. If you use pinky, it should be relatively painless.

just realised this is a 6 month old post that has been resurrected.

Hello and welcome to the forum. Excellent choice of bass. I absolutely love my us deluxe jazz Vs - best playing and sounding basses I have ever owned. I recently got mine resprayed so needed new plates to suit the finish. I got a couple of b/w/b plates throug aurora project and I have to say I was distinctly unimpressed with the quality. The two plates were different sizes, were badly cut - in one case so badly that there's a gaping hole visible between the plate and chrome control cover. I even sent them the original tortoisehsell plate from my bass as a guide. I should have contacted them to voice my displeasure. I have a proposal for you though. I still have the tort plate sitting here unused - tortoisehell and purple and royal blue just don't mix! I would be willing to sell it for £20 inc shipping or swap it for a set of Fender Superbass strings. How does that sound? It's a genuine fender plate in pretty good condition - a few surface scratches, but nothing noticeable. Hans

What makes him 'band leader'? I encounter this phrase all the time but struggle to see how it fits into the grand scheme of things in many bands. Does he own the rights to the band name, logo, etc... Does he own publishing rights for all material, etc... Does he pay the band members a standard salary? If NOTA appliy and he's not some musical genius, then he's not a 'band leader' per se, just someone with more dominating personality than the rest of the band. If it were me, I'd start standing up to him and if he has a problem with it, he can eject you from the band. Chances are, the other bandmates all feel the same way and none of them has the strength of conviction to stand up to him.

There's a lesson here. Always read the T&Cs. Ebay are quite open about their new policy, so the seller should have factored the need into set enough money aside to post. This is further proof that eBay is courting businesses rather than individuals - everything indicates that they're trying to attract the higher volume, lower margin sellers and withholding funds until feedback is received/21 days is really no difference to payment on invoice. In this case, Ebay win twice though - they pocket the interest on the funds they've held and charge higher final value fees. IIRC, they've removed some of the penalties on buy it now.

Done.

This is black metal. You don't need great tone Someone on here (badgerific?) is selling a BC Rich beast, in black, for silly money.

I think the machine costs 6 figures and needs someone suitably trained to operate it. It can't handle scalloped fingerboards or fanned frets and needs to be constantly calibrated. I own two very similar basses. I had one plekked because I couldn't sort out the action at Charlie Chandlers said it needed a major fret dress. £145 and 2 weeks later I had a bass with lovely shiny frets but still had a problem with the action. I took my other bass into my local music shop where the guitar tech gave it a fret dress by hand. £50 and he filled and sanded all of the dings along the neck and headstock and it played perfectly first time. You have nothing to worry about.

My 2U Tech head is mounted in a 2U gig skinz rack bag and I have a gig skinz gig bag that I picked up on t'internet for a good price. They've done umpteen rehearsals and a reasonable number of gigs and are still in good nick. The only criticism I have is that the gig skinz tags on the zip have a tendency to break off, leaving a very short zip, which is fiddly to zip/unzip. I've tried superglueing the tags back on, but it's aactually the metal that has broken, so the repair is short lived.

I know I'm a musician. My mates know I'm a musician. I even keep a handy pick in my wallet (mostly for guitar) so that it falls out when I'm rooting round for change, so nice looking female shop assistants think I'm a musician. If I was to buy that phone they wouldn't know I was a musician. They'd probably just think I was a bit of a cock.

[quote name='WarPig' post='709023' date='Jan 11 2010, 04:31 PM']Damn thats only one stop down the line from me![/quote] Perfect. 'Borrow' a trolley from Sainsburys and you're sorted.

Bidding on a Sansamp RBI but not prepared to pay silly minute. I did, however, notice this. £120 starting bid, no reserve and no activity. If it was a blown speaker you could either replace or get reconditioned for under £100, giving you a quality cab for not a lot. [url="http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/David-Eden-2x12-Bass-Cabinet-Amp-Speaker_W0QQitemZ300384373608QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_MusicalInstr_Amplifiers_RL?hash=item45f04dcb68"]http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/David-Eden-2x12-Bass...=item45f04dcb68[/url]

I got into bass for the simple reason that one of my school mates played bass and fancied upgrading so I agreed to buy his old bass off him. I did think DD Verni from Overkill (Years of Decay and Horrorscope era) was the coolest bass player on the planet.

[quote name='Lfalex v1.1' post='698317' date='Jan 1 2010, 07:56 PM']If you think that's unusual, the last piece of footage of Deicide I saw clearly showed Glenn Benton playing a black Rickenbacker...[/quote] Maybe he thought it'd be less likely to get nicked.

You'll always encounter this kind of situation. Actually, usually it'll be worse - you'll be on a 4 or 5 band bill because the promoter is a greedy little sh*t and thinks that by packing in as many different bands as possible they'll maximise their chances of making a few quid, as opposed to giving punters value for money by ensuring that the majority of the evening consists of live music rather than watching changeovers. One band will always be late and miss their alloted soundcheck time, but there will be no one stage managing the affair, so rathern than do the correct thingt, which is move on to the next band and tell the tardy band that they've forfeited their soundcheck, you'll stand around waiting and feeling extra p*ssed off that you've had to use your annual leave or start work early or sneak out or whatever to make soundcheck. Said band will invariably be rubbish, play for too long and ruin the running order, take ages to pack up and then proced to disrupt your set by taking theor gear back out to their cars via the centre of the venue. Sound familiar?